John BALDWIN [Parents]-281 was born 1 on 25 Sep 1665 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. He died 2 on 6 Apr 1736 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. John married 3, 4 (MRIN:301) Sarah HEYWOOD-711 on 5 Feb 1690 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Sarah HEYWOOD [Parents]-711 was born 1 on 30 Aug 1666 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. She died 2 on 9 Feb 1741 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Sarah married 3, 4 (MRIN:301) John BALDWIN-281 on 5 Feb 1690 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Jonathan BALDWIN [Parents]-282 was born 1 on 28 Jan 1667/1668 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. He died on 17 Feb 1736. Jonathan married 2 (MRIN:302) Mary FRENCH-1808 on 13 Dec 1695 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Mary FRENCH-1808 was born 1 in 1677 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Mary married 2 (MRIN:302) Jonathan BALDWIN-282 on 13 Dec 1695 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Thomas BALDWIN [Parents]-284 was born 1 on 26 Mar 1672 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. He died on 12 Dec 1746 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Thomas married (MRIN:303) Sarah FRENCH-1809 about 1698 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Susanna BALDWIN [Parents]-286 was born 1 on 14 Apr 1677 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. She died on 17 Jan 1758 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Susanna married (MRIN:304) Joseph HILL-1811.

Phebe BALDWIN [Parents]-287 was born 1 on 7 Feb 1679/1680 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. She died on 19 Sep 1736 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Phebe married (MRIN:305) Roger TOOTHAKER-1812 on 7 Aug 1718 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Christian CLAPP-4026 was born 1 about 1540 in Sidbury, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom. She died 2 in BET 25 JUL 1608 AND 12 AUG 1608 in Sidbury, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom. Christian married 3 (MRIN:306) Richard CLAPP-4025 in Sidbury, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom.

Christian had a will 4 in 1608 in Sidbury, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom.

The yeoman family of Clapp was living in the Devonshire parish of Sidbury as early as 1883 whep Roger Clappc was listed in a subsidy, and Clapp's hill is still a place name in the parish after the lapse of six centuries. Unfortunately, the parish register of Sidbury has been destroyed by fire so that it has been impossible to determine the exact relationship which the Clapps who were living in the parish in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries bore to each other. A few Clapp wills in the various probate courts of Devonshire had been abstracted before the Registry at Exeter was totally destroyed in the blitzkrieg, but they do not serve to make a proven pedigree of any great length.
1. CHRISTIAN CLAPP of Sidbury, co. Devon, a grandmother when she made her will in 1608, was probably born about 1540. The name of her husband is not known. She had an only son, Nicholas Clapp, and, as Peter Clapp of Sidbury, husbandman, who made his will in 1622, mentions his brother Nicholas Clapp, there is a possibility that Christian s husband had had an earlier wife who was the mother of Peter Clapp and his brother Robert C]app whom Peter also names in his will. This theory is, of course, dependent on Christian s son and Peter's brother being the same man. In 1555 a William Clapp of Sidbury, but living in the parish of Harforde, made a will leaving legacies to the two children of his son Richard, who appears to have been his only son. One may hazard a guess, based purely on time and place, that Richard Clapp was the husband of our widow Christian, but the family may have, in the interval between 1338 (or earlier) and 1555, produced very distantly related branches even in the same parish, while the wills show that in the neighboring villages there were in the sixteenth century many other representatives of the name. It is safer to begin our pedigree with the lone widow.

Christian Clapp of Sidbury, co. Devon, widow, made her will July 25, 1608, and it was proved August 12, 1608, by the executor Nicholas Clapp of Sidbury. She bequeaths to the poor of Sidbury. To her god-children. To god-daughter dwelling at Broadclist, "one Petecotte with browne charmlet bodyes." To Mary Clapp, a gown. To Elizabeth Clapp, my son Nicholas his *Abstracts of the wills and other English material were kindly supplied to me by Mary Lovering Holman.

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wife, my cloak. To Prudence Clapp, Anne Crutchet and Ann Windsam, all my linen apparell to be equally divided. To Ann Windsam, my feather-bed, a bolster, a red coverlet and the mattress. To Prudence Clapp, my cupboard at Pynhill and a table-hoard and a brazen pan. To foresaid Ann Windsam £10 to be employed for her benefit and if she die before twenty said £10 to remain to Prudence Clapp. To my daughter Eyde Crutchett, £10. To Richard Clapp, my son Nicholas his son, one chest. To Ellen Lee, my kirtle. To Ann Windsam, a brazen pan, a crock and my coffer. Residue to son Nicholas Clapp, executor. Witnesses: William Ebdon, James Taylor. Inventory taken August 9, 1608, by William Warren, John Southwood, Thomas Searle, Thomas Ebdon.

Richard CLAPP [Parents] 1-290 was born 2 about 1605 in England, United Kingdom. He died 3 in England, United Kingdom. Richard married 4 (MRIN:307) Edith GARLANTE-4035 on 6 May 1633 in Venn Ottery, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom.

Richard CLAPP [Parents] 1-290 was born 2 about 1605 in England, United Kingdom. He died 3 in England, United Kingdom. Richard married 4 (MRIN:308) Elizabeth-4036 on 24 Dec 1646 in Venn Ottery, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom.

Prudence CLAPP [Parents] 1-291 was born 2 about 1606 in England, United Kingdom. She died 3 in BET 1640 AND 1646 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Prudence married 4, 5 (MRIN:309) Edward CLAPP-4037 about 1634 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.

On 8 May 1635, "Edward clap and family" were passengers on the hopewell, sailing from Weymouth for New England [NGSQ 71:173].

Nicholas CLAPP [Parents] 1-292 was born 2 in 1612 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. He died 3 on 24 Nov 1679 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Nicholas married 4, 5 (MRIN:310) Sarah CLAPP-1814 about 1633 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.

NICHOLAS CLAP AND HIS DESCENDANTS.
[Compiled from MS. of EBENEZER CLAP of Dorchester.]

NICHOLAS CLAP, fourth son of Richard Clap of England1 was born in 1612. He was a cousin of the celebrated Capt. Roger Clap, through whose influence, it is supposed, Nicholas2 came to this country about 1633, and settled in Dorchester, Mass. His name appears on the Town Records various times in connection with the municipat affairs of the town; and he was a deacon of the church. His first wife was Sarah Clap, a sister of Ca1it. Roger Clap; his second, Abigail, 1widow of Robert Sharp of Brookline. it is presumed that the residence of Nicholas Clap was in the north part of the town of Dorchester, near the house now standing, which was occupied by the late Deacon Ehenezer Clap, senior, who died March 6th, 1860. See Reg. XIV. 284. Nicholas Clap died suddenly, in his barn, Nov. 24th, 1679. His estate was appraised by James Hum-frey, William Sumner, Henry Leadhetter. The balance, after deducting the debts, was £358, 4, 4. His sons, Nathaniel and Ebenezer, were ad. ministrators. He had four brothers, viz.: Ambrose and Richard, who lived and died in England; Thomas,2 b. in 1597, d. in Scituate, Mass., April 20, 1684, leaving descendants; John, d. in Dorchester, July 24, 1655. John left a widow, Joan, (who m. subsequently, John Ellis of Medfield,) but no children. In his will, dated July 11, 1655, be gives to his wife his dwelling-house, with all his lands, during her life. After her decease, said house and lands are given "to the muintwnance of the ministry and a Schoole in Dorchester foreuer." The portion of the land situated at "Dorchester neck," now South Boston Point, was sold in 1835, for upwards of $13,000. See Hist. Dorchester,p. 442.